Ratings Tweaked
When it comes to the ratings, we have 2 main goals.
- Keep the ratings system as open and free as possible
- Keep the ratings system as fair to everyone as possible
Balancing between these 2 is often difficult. One always seem to adversely affect the other. We have to prevent bots and unscrupulous users from manipulating ratings, but we also try to keep the system open so anyone can rate anyone at anytime.
This being said, we’ve had to tweak the ratings system a little more to prevent profiles’ ratings from being artificially inflated. We can’t say exactly what we’ve changed, but it has to do with how many times a profile can be rated each day. Our system tries to identify patterns in ratings that look suspicious. And, as you can guess, if a profile gets rated 20 times more than the rest of the profiles on the site, it looks suspicious.
We always make sure everyone knows that the ratings system will always be open. You will never have to login or sign up to rate. But we have to balance this with other concerns to make sure the system is as fair as possible.